I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
The federal government should not be an accessory to the unconstitutional actions of the Arizona state government. By continuing to work with Arizona police departments operating under SB 1070, the Department is implicitly condoning the shameful tactics authorized by the new law.
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.
Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.
It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's real, and it's not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we've had with money as a society - having money, talking about money - has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there's nothing wrong about giving it back.
A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.
I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.
Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.
